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Mandy Patinkin is looking to add a Drama Supporting Actor Emmy for “Homeland” to the one he won for his starring role on the drama “Chicago Hope” back in 1996. He reaped a second straight bid for his role as Saul Berenson, acting director of the CIA.

SYNOPSIS: Saul has placed Majid Javadi (Shaun Toub), the deputy intelligence chief and financier of the Langley bombing, in a safe house after Javadi brutally murdered his ex-wife and daughter-in-law. He tells Javadi that he will be sent back to Iran either be as their asset in the regime or as a traitor to the revolution. He is shown a picture of Peter (Rupert Friend) at the crime scene taken by a neighbor’s security camera and instructs Carrie (Claire Danes) to deal with this and to get Javadi to a plane to take him back to Iran.

Upon returning to the CIA, he is confronted by Dar Adul (F. Murray Abraham) and meets with Adul and Sen. Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts), the incoming director to tell them he has recruited Javadi as an asset for the agency. Lockhart protests and Saul and Adul lock him in a conference room. Saul then apologizes to Adul that he didn’t keep him in the loop. When Saul arrives home, his adulterous wife asks how his day was. He tells her it was really good, hugs her and apologizes for forgetting how beautiful she is.